In August, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that corporate profit margins during the previous three months established a new record. In all, corporate profits for 2022’s second quarter hit $2 trillion. BEA released its data after oil companies, food giants, agriculture and other major industries also ...

Founder's Corner Dear All, Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of speaking at the National Conservatism Conference, NatCon3, in Miami. It was a personal political journey filled with twists and turns and for some I’m sure it’s hard to imagine how I’ve gone from a very well-known Progressive and former Executive Board member of the California ...

Executive Director's Corner Dear All: Given the numerous attempts to pack immigration provisions into current spending bills, there’s probably no better time to talk about the real meaning of the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon for immigrants, and not just any immigrants, but the poorest and most destitute around the globe. ...

Executive Director’s Corner Dear All: In The People Who Hate People, Jerusalem Demsas of the Atlantic writes: “Although major organizations have abandoned population management as an explicit policy goal, the underlying fear that too many people are running up on the limits of too few resources and Well shouldn’t someone do something about that? has never fully been rooted ...

In an article titled, Decline in Immigration Threatens Growth of Regions on the Rise, New York Times columnist Miriam Jordan states that “Immigrants helped make places like Northwest Arkansas economic dynamos. But their dwindling numbers, a big factor in slower population growth, could have long-term repercussions.” Her claim is predicated on the assumption that in a ...

I often complain about my children’s apparent disregard for time. For them, time seems to be irrelevant in their daily lives. Have an appointment? It’s OK to be late. Need to be at work at 8:00 AM? 8:05 is OK. Granddaughter’s bedtime? What’s that? For me as a member of the ...

I live in Southern California, where generations of my family have lived since the 1880s. All I know about the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1919 I learned through history books in university. My grandmother wouldn’t talk about it. Oddly, in the case of a pandemic, the past to me is not so very helpful. In the ...

Dear All: Once again, I am at a loss to shed any light on the much-anticipated H-1B visa rule changes. As of yesterday, they appear to be making their requisite bureaucratic rounds and are now at the Office of Management and Budget. Fingers crossed that what will eventually emerge will be something to celebrate. Earlier this week, ...

Dear All: Fred Stafford’s article in the Jacobin “How Trump Got His Right-Wing New Deal Victory” provides much of the fodder for this week’s Founder’s Corner.  Excluding the slights and backhanded compliments directed at “yours truly,” his commentary is best summed up in these words: “And just like that, Trump had saved two hundred union workers at ...

Shortly before Congress adjourned for its summer break, what it aggrandizingly likes to refer to as “constituent work days,” the House of Representatives passed a horrible immigration bill, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who never met a bill to expand the foreign-born labor pool at American workers’ expense she ...

shibboleth: a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning (Merriam-Webster)   In July 2018, President Trump announced an initiative to train and “reskill” Americans for jobs. Hey, I believed him when he declared Buy American, Hire American in April 2017. Why not this? The ...

Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak interview Kevin Lynn on Breitbart News Tonight: Bills H.R.1044 and S.386 — both titled the “Fairness to High-Skilled Immigrants Act” — will accelerate “the active stripping of the United States” via the “outsourcing of white-collar jobs” to H-1B visa workers, explained Kevin Lynn, executive director of Institute for Sound Public Policy. ...

White House senior advisor Jared Kushner’s immigration plan is a direct threat to thousands of U.S. workers with white-collar jobs. Kushner’s vision, which he’s worked on for months, and developed under the false pretense that the nation has a dire labor shortage, would emphasize skilled labor, but would further displace American workers. U.S. workers, especially ...

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the flood of illegal immigrants arriving in the United States on a daily basis is “undercutting” President Trump’s “Hire American” economy by threatening to choke recent wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class. Trump’s populist-nationalist agenda of increasing immigration enforcement throughout the interior of the U.S. ...

The Texas Workforce Commission has proposed a new rule allowing gig-economy, app-based employers like Lyft, Uber and Handy to classify their workers as “independent contractors,” stripping them of basic labor rights like unemployment insurance, and shifting the payroll tax burden from the company to the gig workers. While other states’ legislatures have initiated similar laws, the ...

  On March 16, 2019, Steven Lamb and Kevin Lynn discussed the college admissions scandal that has been dominating the news over the past several days. The conversation quickly veered to a deeper inquiry into a system hyper-focused on credentialization over systems that produce critical and independent thinkers as well as college education as a racket. ...

Goldman Sachs says blue-collar and middle-class wages jumped by four percent in the last 12 months — after discounting inflation — and are likely to keep growing in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy. Trump’s low immigration “tight labor market” policy played a key role, the report acknowledged: “Even if job growth slows as the labor ...

Silicon Valley’s business elites and donor-class billionaires are uniting with elected Republicans and Democrats to ensure that white-collar, middle-class American jobs are swiftly outsourced to mostly Indian and Chinese nationals. A plan known as the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, introduced in the Senate by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), as well as Reps. ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he is ready to ditch his Inauguration Day promise of a “Hire American” economic policy — even though thousands of auto workers are being laid off, millions of Americans do not have jobs, and many millions of Americans cannot get better-paying jobs. The huge policy shift in favor of employers and ...

An expanding group of American professionals is building support for a January 26 protest against the outsourcing of middle-class jobs via the H-1B visa program. The Protect U.S. Workers group has scheduled the protest in Connecticut, where the state’s governor is providing a subsidy to an Indian company which uses H-1B visa-workers to outsource U.S. middle-class jobs back ...